Ya, in the end it will be an option to turn the numbers in the margins back on. That'd be just my luck when I want to get rid of the progress bar (which I already modded away except for the black bar itself).

It's not all the time there, no, but every time I flip the page, it flashes that bar in and out, which I found distracting, and it leaves a little ghosting, so I removed it as much as possible. The numbers and the border around the bar are actually graphics, so I replaced them with transparent ones (thus they vanish entirely), but the bar itself is computed by the device / hardcoded, so I haven't found a way to remove that also.

I could add a thousand empty pages to each book so the bar would always stay one pixel thin throughout the book, but that's not really practical.

And then they go and add a page numbers off language string to the language file but no actual setting or code to go with it to actually disable it. So you're like yay when you discover those language strings but meh when there's nothing behind it.

I'm happy with the device also (probably would be less happy if I hadn't modded it), but for its lack of settings - since they added that progress bar afterwards with a firmware update not sure which version, they should've added a setting for it at the same time, but no... oh well

My status bar flashes on the bottom of the screen for a brief moment then disappears. I guess I kind of tune it out as I don't notice it much, and my screen does not have the ghosting issues. Unfortunately, no two E Ink screens are alike in this regard; some have more problems with ghosting than others.

Yes, the Story HD is a nice simple eReader. Nothing fancy, but it is very light and I love having the physical keyboard and HD screen. I actually really love the sound of the key clicks also. It's like an auditory recognition of progress lol.

I have noticed another feature of the upgrade.
Some days ago i have upgraded my iriver story hd to the newer firmware 1.33.
Now, the clock seems to work even if the unit is turned off for a long time.
So, I have set the auto power off to the minimum !!

I have noticed another feature of the upgrade.
Some days ago i have upgraded my iriver story hd to the newer firmware 1.33.
Now, the clock seems to work even if the unit is turned off for a long time.
So, I have set the auto power off to the minimum !!

That's interesting. I've had my Story HD for over a year and have never had a problem with the clock. I think the longest it's been completely shut down is 2-3 weeks. Maybe you had a software glitch which was fixed by the restart after update? I don't know. Just glad it's working for you.

There's no change in functionality whatsoever so... *shrug* the change is purely cosmetic. Maybe they found a bug that was severe enough to warn about instead of actually fixing it? But then again we already know about bugs (like filename too long bug) that forces you to put all books on SD card anyway because if you have a bad book in internal memory, the device is bricked. And that bug triggers even with just a single book, so it doesn't have anything to do with 2000 files...